At Wedderburn NSW a dormant Douglas A-26C-25-DT Invader project will shortly be coming back to life under the watchful eye of experienced aircraft restorer Richard Thompson. The aircraft is currently stored at Bankstown airport but will shortly be making its way to Wedderburn, NSW. Richard acquired the aircraft (which was previously with the Australian Aviation […]
Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online follows on from our previous news on the rebuild of Bristol Hercules engines by Peter Brooke at Historical Aircraft Engines in Brisbane Queensland for the Bristol Beaufighter project of the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) and Robert Grienert’s Historical Aircraft Restorations Limited. The major decision has now been made as to the version […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online attended the Wings Over Illawarra (WOI) 2019 Airshow on the 4th and 5th of May. This show has built up a great reputation as one of Australia’s premier airshows over the past few years and this year’s edition was no exception. The weather could have been kinder on the Sunday and curtailed Sunday’s […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online recently journeyed to the NSW country city of Dubbo to visit one of the most skilled metal workers we have ever seen. Mark Nugent is a highly trained coachbuilder with an excellent reputation for high quality work. Interestingly Mark works in the fields of Motor Vehicle restoration and Aircraft restoration. Although it is […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online continues its series on surviving and historic CAC C A-17/CA-18 Mustang and North American built P51 Mustangs. Today we feature the start of Australian production with the most historic surviving Australian produced CAC Mustang, m/f No 1326 NA110-34366 a CA-17 RAAF Serial A68-1 assembled from a “kit set“ of parts shipped from the […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online recently visited the Luftfahrt Museum Laatzen, the Museum of Aeronautical History in Laatzen-Hannover, Germany. The Museum is located in an industrial estate near Hannover in Germany and was a surprising and interesting collection of aircraft and aviation related exhibits – there are 4,500 exhibits located in 3,500 m² of exhibition space. The Museum […]
Aviation Museums, Cold War, Fighter Aircraft, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
At the recent Flying Legends Airshow at Duxford UK, Warbirds Online was very interested in a unique team of Warbirds, the Classic Formation team based in Switzerland, featuring 3 Beechcraft Model 18’s and 1 Douglas DC-3. Although this team has been in existence for some time it was our first occasion to witness this excellent […]
Airshows, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
While in the UK on our recent tour Warbirds Online was able to catch up with one of the most exciting Warbird restoration projects to emerge over the past decade, Hawker Typhoon RB396. The Hawker Typhoon was a legend of WWll, on the drawing board in 1938 and conceived as a fighter to replace the […]
Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds